Software Engineer (Backend - Python/Django)

**About the company:** Kraken Minato-ku, Tokyo We believe energy should be better - for you and the environment. We’re a leading energy technology company providing a better experience for our customers through transparency, honesty and simplicity. **Responsibilities:** We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The Japanese energy market is complicated, outdated and process-heavy - there’s an awful lot of domain modelling that we need to get right. Strong attention to detail is essential. We have difficult technical problems to solve. With the advent of smart meters, we’ll soon be processing millions of meter readings a day. We need the right technology in place to handle this smoothly as well as feeding data into a machine learning pipeline that models and predicts consumption. There’s a great opportunity for disruption in the Japanese energy market. The energy landscape is changing as we move to more dis-aggregated forms of generation, with less predictability, more dynamism and smarter technology. Octopus Energy were the first UK supplier to introduce a “tracker” tariff whose prices track the daily wholesale prices . You’ll be working for a company that’s fighting climate change. Our parent company is the largest investor in solar generation in the UK, and are funding wind and anaerobic digestion. As a supplier, we’re helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the UK towards a lower carbon future. Requirements We’re looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful. It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order): Python Django (or equiv. web framework) Domain modelling HTTP and REST APIs Writing robust and fault-tolerant software Celery and async processing Postgres Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. AWS Terraform, Packer, Consul Ability to speak Japanese APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION Meet Kraken's Developers Succeeding as a Senior Engineer at Kraken with Jos Vennik Jos is a senior software engineer and team lead of the payments and collections team at Kraken. He is also a line manager and a tech lead. Jos tells us about the environment at Kraken, what his job involves, and what makes working there so rewarding. Read their story... Why Kraken is an award winning workplace with Polly Sutcliffe Polly Sutcliffe came to Japan on the JET programme. After working as a translator, she pivoted her career through a coding bootcamp. Now she's a frontend developer at Kraken, where she works on their consumer-facing portal. Read their story... **Requirements:** We’re looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful. It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order): Python Django (or equiv. web framework) Domain modelling HTTP and REST APIs Writing robust and fault-tolerant software Celery and async processing Postgres **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. AWS Terraform, Packer, Consul Ability to speak Japanese APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION Meet Kraken's Developers Succeeding as a Senior Engineer at Kraken with Jos Vennik Jos is a senior software engineer and team lead of the payments and collections team at Kraken. He is also a line manager and a tech lead. Jos tells us about the environment at Kraken, what his job involves, and what makes working there so rewarding. Read their story... Why Kraken is an award winning workplace with Polly Sutcliffe Polly Sutcliffe came to Japan on the JET programme. After working as a translator, she pivoted her career through a coding bootcamp. Now she's a frontend developer at Kraken, where she works on their consumer-facing portal. Read their story...